Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2001 19:29:30 +0300
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Subject: Re: More control for profiling
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> Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 12:53:42 +0200 (MET DST)
> From: Hans-Bernhard Broeker <broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de>
> 
> On Wed, 23 May 2001, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> > The following changes implement a couple of new functions (by mostly
> > reusing existing code ;-) which let you control profiling
> > programmatically from within the program being profiled.  
> 
> Sounds like a good idea. Gprof can do a large part of this, if you really
> know how to use it (static callgraph deduction, limiting the displayed
> data to a specific part of the call-graph, etc.), but it can be quite 
> cumbersome, to put it mildly.

Thanks for the feedback and the suggestions.  I've decided to put the
prototypes of the functions on sys/gmon.h.  The new code is now
committed to the CVS.